vagus nerve

What does vagus nerve mean?

vagus nerve means "a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera".

What is another word for vagus nerve?

Close synonyms include vagus, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vagus nerve a common word?

vagus nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vagus nerve come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.